Example sentences of "begun [to-vb] [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The British Government had , by late autumn , begun to sense that the situation was hopeless and was veering toward an immediate withdrawal . |
| 2 | However , in the investigators ' study of deaf mothers and their infants they have begun to see that the mothers create the crucial joint reference naturally but differently by altering their own sign language . |
| 3 | The stomach had begun to swell and the chamber stank with the evil gases which emanated from it . |
| 4 | Mr Major said : ‘ I think people have now begun to recognise that the inflation psychology is on the retreat in the United Kingdom and that is a very valuable gain . ’ |
| 5 | In recent years evidence has begun to accumulate that the learning opportunities which project or topic work presents are rarely exploited to the full . |
| 6 | But by the time it was furnished , the wool-based economy had begun to collapse and the family could n't support the house . |
| 7 | It is only our more ambivalent age , engaged in the very last mopping-up of the great wet waste which challenged our ancestors , which has begun to question whether the price of progress has been too high . |
| 8 | They had begun to decline while the market was still growing . |
| 9 | By the early 1630s , however , some Arminians had begun to argue that the English via media was in fact superior both to Roman Catholicism and the more extreme varieties of continental Protestantism . |
| 10 | This is the reason Indians have begun to say that the sky and elements felt the death of the Inca that the Spaniards , inhuman and impious , were killing with such cruelty . ’ |
| 11 | Swann displayed a much firmer grasp of the significance of socio-economic circumstances in explaining the fate of students of Afro-Caribbean origin in the education system and had begun to notice that the achievement of students of Bangladesh I origin should also give cause for concern . |
| 12 | People have begun to notice that the biosphere is not just a theme park to take the children to on Saturday afternoon but a very necessary thing for human survival . |